The seasons run with swift feet.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Nature always levies her tribute.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.